CVE-2012-0955
HIGH7.4EPSS 0.12%Published: 12/2/2020Modified: 4/28/2026
Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2012-0955
Description
software-properties was vulnerable to a person-in-the-middle attack due to incorrect TLS certificate validation in softwareproperties/ppa.py. software-properties didn't check TLS certificates under python2 and only checked certificates under python3 if a valid certificate bundle was provided. Fixed in software-properties version 0.92.
Affected packages (1)
- Debian/software-propertiesfrom 0, < 0.92.25debian1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N |